Environmental Management Information Systems
The Environmental Management at public or private sector in order to achieve the sustainable development is strongly dependant on the availability of information, as a basic requirement for decision-making. The 12.8 point of the Sustainable Development Goals emphasize the need of ensuring that 2030, people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature”.
Thus, Mozambique occupying an area of about 799,380 km2 with its rich biological diversity, the answer for the above mentioned point is challenged by management of this biodiversity whether fauna or flora. In this challenge, the information becomes crucial.
This challenge is posed to the various institutions public or private, and the Pedagogical University through the Superior Technician School has proactively introduced the Environmental Management Information Systems Master Course whose objective was to train technicians with capabilities of developing systems capable to answer the challenges of generating relevant information for decision makers aiming sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.
So, this Master Dissertation research herewith shared aimed to conceive and further implement the Lion Management Information System at National Administration of Conservation Areas, particulraly Niassa National Reserve, is a Case Study for implementation.
The National Administration for Conservation within the Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development at the time the research was conducted (2017) is a Central Government Institution with important role and responsibility of managing the biodiversity in all conservation areas (parks and reserves). So, Niassa National Reserve comprised in 2017, of the conservation area holding the major population of lion raging between 800 to 1000 individuals, a number not updated somehow because of the lack of accurate data regarding the geographical distribution and dynamic of this specie.
As a solution for this problem there was conceived (identified the opportunity within the National Administration of Conservation Areas, established the requirements, modelled, and programmed suggested a theory of change) a lion management information system as a communicative platform with all engaged stakeholders in the process of lion protection and/or exploration.
The most important result above is that the conceived and developed information system as a prototype can be extended to other species of fauna and flora and furthermore, to all the net of conservation areas countrywide, and it responds positively to the institutional (ANAC) Strategic Plan.
Key words: Environmental Management Information Systems; Lion Management
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